Monday, February 20, 2012

Great Teddy Roosevelt Quotes

Happy Presidents' Day Everyone! I have a whole book of these, but as it is at home right now, I got many from here

1. Do what you can with what you have where you are.
2. Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
3. It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.
4. There can be no greater issue than that of conservation in this country.
5. There are good men and bad men of all nationalities, creeds and colors; and if this world of ours is ever to become what we hope some day it may become, it must be by the general recognition that the man's heart and soul, the man's worth and actions, determine his standing.
6. Viewed purely in the abstract, I think there can be no question that women should have equal rights with men.
7. Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly.
8. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground.
9. There were all kinds of things I was afraid of at first, ranging from grizzly bears to 'mean' horses and gun-fighters; but by acting as if I was not afraid I gradually ceased to be afraid.
10. Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

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